soulmate
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See also: soul mate
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
soul + mate. First attested as soul-mate in a 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Not in common usage before the 1980s.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
soulmate (plural soulmates)
- Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
- 2012, Ulli Springett, Tara Springett, Soulmate Relationships: How to find, keep and understand your perfect partner, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- Finding your wonderful soulmate is very similar to the process of sowing a seed and nurturing it into a beautiful blossoming plant.
- 2015, “Jungle”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:
- I'm all over the place, I can't sit in one place / I'm not ashamed at all / Still findin' myself, let alone a soulmate, I'm just sayin'
Hyponyms
Translations
Someone with whom one has a special connection
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See also
References
- ^ “soulmate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836) “Letter to a Young Lady”, in Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, E. Moxon, page 89: “To be happy in Marriage Life, […] , in order not to be miserable, you must have a Soul-mate as well as a House or a Yoke-mate; […]”
- ^ (soul mate + soulmate) at Google Ngram Viewer
Further reading
soulmate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “soulmate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English soulmate.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: soul‧mate
Noun
soulmate m (plural soulmates, diminutive soulmateje n)